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Emissary of Light: A Vision of Peace

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We have all been gifted with eternal moments, commonly sparked beneath the same mantle of sky -- moments when we felt suffused with God's peace, immersed in the certainty that all is as it should be and nothing can change the truth of things. Occasionally, our common sky holds out one star whose pulse ignites more peace-lit moments than its neighbors. Just such a star, ascendant on the New Age horizon, is Jimmy Twyman's book, "Emissary of Light."

It chronicles Peace Troubadour Twyman's unexplainable compulsion to bring his Peace Concert to war-ravaged Bosnia-Croatia, and the extraordinary events that unfold when he finally arrives. From the moment he leaves Italy, the synchronicities urging him on begin to accelerate at an alarming rate, until he finds himself secluded in a mountainous terrain, at the mercy of strangers, on the very border between Bosnia and Croatia. Into the thick of the fighting, staring straight in the face of the Bosnian Serb Army, Jimmy is led to a mythical, mystic community of peacemakers called The Emissaries of Light. For countless centuries, The Emissaries have secretly kept humanity from self-annihilation by extending Divine Light. Jimmy lives with The Emissaries, joins their intensive meditations, receives practical instruction and amazingly is entrusted with their peace-invoking secrets. It is time, they explain, for the world to learn of their work and Jimmy has been summoned as the one to reveal their story. Then suddenly, with the tumult of exploding bombs behind him, Jimmy is escorted to Rijeka and boarded on a plane bound for Chicago. But the saga does not end here, for he returns again, performs The Peace Concert in Sarajevo and narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. What follows remains for the reader to discover.

As a simple Indiana Jones-like adventure, "Emissary" comes out a winner with just the right blend of action and suspense to keep the reader wholly absorbed. But the content of this tale is so much larger than its wrappings. Framed within the adventure is a message that opens wide any light-seeker's understanding. The importance of releasing fear and stepping into the present's light, where no past or future casts a shadow on truth, is reinforced again and again in every chapter. Danger encroaches upon Jimmy and The Emissaries from all sides, but never grabs hold. As they stand firmly rooted in the light of truth, only truth can be seen, and approaching shadows melt shined away at their feet. The Emissaries remind Jimmy to stay presently receptive and demonstrate how Love's extension is accomplished through clear vision. Jimmy has come already supplied with the philosophy that Love is the only reality and The Emissaries clarify for him how to live that ideal daily. Behind the smokescreen of our judgements, the only thing we experience in truth is Love's Light. There is nothing else to be felt. By letting go of all distorting labels such as pain, anger, grief, consolation, pleasure and even happiness, we are freed to purely access the only energy there is and use it to create as we are in Love created. Thus do we peel away the last masks of illusion and return safely home where our real identity has always been known. What other path to peace could there be?

For all the light it sheds, "Emissary" is not a flashy book. Jimmy's homespun style includes the reader, invites all onlookers to join him on his journey, to sit back with him and enjoy the ride. "I'm no different than you," he tells us and we believe him. Therein flames the hope his words emblaze forever in our hearts. Twyman and his Emissaries gently restore us with a sense of purpose, a job to do and a function to fulfill. We come away from his book assured that each of us has a vital and indispensable contribution to make. He convinces us that peace is not the idle pipedream of mystics and poets, or a political game reserved for power players only, but the result of everyhuman's personal quest to uncover the impersonal already realized within his/her very core. Jimmy's passion for peace is contagious and leaves no one untouched by its transforming grace. If you are tempted to believe Author Twyman's offered blessings have run dry with the last page of his book, I recommend you find a copy of his Emissary of Light CD and listen to Troubadour Twyman sing. In his music swells a celestial certainty that his blessings, in union with ours, runneth over eternally.

I had the opportunity to meet James Twyman before I read "Emissary of Light". I know this really did occur and his mission is God inspired. This book should not be classified with "The Celestine Prophecy" book as "Emissary of Light" is a documentary of an actual event. Really let yourself become part of the experience - you will become a new person. If everyone experiences what he is trying to pass on in this book - there would really be peace on earth. May Peace Prevail on Earth.

If you are of the mind - set to accept the fact that God truly does work in mysterious ways to bring His children Home this book is for you!! I guarantee you will never see Life quite the same again. Besides being so enlightening, it is a rivetting, compelling, and exciting story!! Enjoy!

I felt ripped off and deceived as I finished the book. It started out so promising.

But, by the time I got to the last chapter, I was getting more and more skeptical, and by the time I closed the book, I was starting to mentally tick off the points that were irritants.

If he had posited this as an allegory, it wouldn't have been so bad, but I find it really difficult to believe that in a war zone, a group of 25 or 30 people, who are at least four or six hours away from a car, and thus have to hike in all their food, have apples, oranges and lemons around the kitchen. And bread. When they drove in, they didn't mention another car there - where is the car that the community uses to get to town to buy the fruit and bread?

It's possible that they didn't hike to town to buy bread, but if they brought in flour, same issue, plus you have to deal with the fact that these people have 12 hour work shifts, and have to sleep and do building and life maintenance, so when do they have time to bake bread?

SPOILER -don't read this next part if you haven't read the book!
I can understand making themselves invisible to the soldiers, but how can they make a field of grain or an orchard invisible? If they were growing what they were using, they would need a considerable-sized farm, not to mention hired servants and field hands. I've had a garden before, and it's not a matter of getting down on your hands and knees - you need serious tools. Each plant only produces a small amount, you need many plants, espcially if you are going to feed 25 or 30 people.

I wasn't sure about the women that were in the background, whether they were part of the 12 helpers, or if they did the kitchen duty while the 24 were in the Light house.

It's totally ludicrous. I've been in communities who are trying to be self-sufficient, and they were eating nettles and greens and had farm animals like chickens and goats, and they didn't eat a lot of bread or fruit. And they all had cars to get to town. And they spent all their time taking care of the buildings and managing the farm.

If there were cars at the abandoned farm where they left their car, to hike to the village, and Twyman just didn't mention them, I find it hard to believe the soldiers would drive past it and not notice or take those cars, especially since they have to have enough gas in them to drive for hours.

The other part I didn't like was the actual content of the teachings.
Maybe Twyman is so advanced that he just was able to just poof away his fears, but most people have their fears drilled into them from early childhood. It's part of the acculturation that we do to children in our society. The very act of putting a newborn baby by itself for hours at night is extremely traumatic. Can you imagine a moma wolf or bear ignoring her scared crying babies a few feet away from her? Yet, we do that to almost all our children - make them cry themselves to sleep every night. That is terrifying. And that's the least of the traumas we do to our kids. Many adults throw their anger at their children - to frighten them. Many adults actually hit their kids to frighten them. This is a deep trauma that is not easily broken by a few hours of thought exercise.

As I said, perhaps Twyman was so spiritually advanced that he was able to overcome a family history of traumatic injury, or maybe he choose a paternal and maternal line before he was born that was unique in not having that family sickness of hurting their children, and thus was able to easily visualize his fear away, but it's not reasonable to assume that he has the ability to transfer that to others. Dealing with somatic fear is a non-trivial issue.

The other major thing that irritated me is that he impllied, in the last chapter, that time was of great import. It was a matter of days between when he finished the book, got an agent, and publisher, and was on his way back to Sarajevo. After thousands of years, these workers' work is done, yet that was fifteen years ago. What's the big rush? What's Twyman done since then? Where's the Big Change?

The part between when he arrived in Chicago and his second concert seemed like it was real. I've done a lot of of travelling, and one of my favorite things to do is to meet others and listen to their stories. This sounds like a real story. But then, the story from the village of the vision of Mary to the end went back to being not very credible or realistic-sounding. It just didn't have the ring of authenticity to it, not to mention the vapid, done-a-million-times-already grand finale.

As I said, when I finished the book, I felt ripped off. I claim this book is phoney. I wasted about half a day of my life I could have been reading something good.

Twyman reveals information that is uplifting and motivating. He takes Celestine Prophecy ideas to new heights in his personal accounts in Bosnia. Great book for anyone who wishes to carry the Celestine Prophecy Vision a step further.

Twyman has admitted that his tales are not "completely" true, but even so, this was a bland and disappointing book, with little to recommend it unless of course, you are willing to go along for the thrills of another manufactured miracle story.

This is a most amazing story, especially since it is true. It has inspired many things in me!

Everyone is entitled to his or her fantasies about saving the world. This is Twyman's. Not only is the book not credible, all the characters talk alike. If Twyman really met such otherworldly beings, I think their accent would be a little different than his. Remember though, this is written by someone who calls himself, "The Peace Troubadour." Also, he claims (not in the book) to have had a private meeting with Saddam Hussein just days before Desert Storm. That gives you an indication of the enormity of his delusions of grandeur. I prefer grounded writings, such as that of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama.